Sublime

Ajahn Amaro

The goal of Zen is to awaken to life as it is, rather than stay in the comparative dream world of our ideas about it.

Rinzai Roku (a celebrated Zen text of the T’ang dynasty) and the teachings of Bankei, the seventeenth-century Japanese master who, for me, represents Zen at its best.

A. T. Ariyaratane, a Buddhist elder, who is considered to be the Gandhi of Sri Lanka.

Zen Buddhism over the past two millennia has been, with a few notable exceptions, the history of monks and monastic practice. While there are now vibrant monastic communities firmly established here in America, the history of Zen has gradually, subtly, but inexorably, shifted out of the monastery and into the daily life of lay practice. Lay

In medieval Japan, under the patronage of the Zen monasteries and the Kamakura shogunate, the prevailing preference for simplicity and modesty were slowly introduced into the styles of the ceramics produced.

Zen priest in both the Soto and Rinzai schools of Zen Buddhism. He has distilled what he’s learned over the course of decades of study into a series of teachings that he calls Big Mind and has been a game changer for thousands of people.